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Google has forever been notorious for "no support". No number to call, no online agents, just help pages... which mostly redirect back to themselves. Even GCP, their cloud, does this. Unless you pay for premium top tier support you're on your own. This scenario is that in practice. There is no one to appeal to, no one to talk to, there's nothing. You build your life around something like an email address, then suddenly the entire ecosystem is gone.
When we talk about degoogling, it's not just for tinfoilhat privacy/rights issues, it's this case too. You literally cannot control your own fate. They can (and obviously do) take down accounts.
For anyone (I know probably not here, but think family and friends) who think that they would just appeal and somehow they would get a human, literally what is the benefit to Google to reinstate you? In their eyes you're officially a risk, something that potentially governments, police departments, and lawyers would be interested in. It's a risk they don't want to take to allow you back on. Appealing even in the best cases will probably not go your way.